Recruiting for professional services Ft. John Borrowman

About this episode

John Borrowman discusses the challenges of recruiting in business valuation and professional services, highlighting common hiring mistakes and solutions.

John Borrowman has been recruiting in business valuation and professional services since 1995—and in that time, he's seen what most firm leaders never will: the full talent market, not just the handful of roles they've personally hired for. In this episode, John brings his "forest vs. trees" perspective to one of the most overlooked challenges in the profession: why BV practices keep making the same hiring mistakes, and what it actually takes to fix them. John introduces his Unique Hiring Pr...

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Host: Ben Towne

Guest: John Borrowman

Topics covered

• recruiting
• business valuation
• professional services
• hiring mistakes
• talent market

Keywords

• recruiting
• business valuation
• professional services
• hiring mistakes
• talent market
• Unique Hiring

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